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I wonder if there's an analog to "parallel construction" that uses intelligence contractors and competitive intelligence firms to move NSA data to the private sector.

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It is not hard to imagine a company like Microsoft wanting something in exchange for all the zero day exploits they report to the NSA in advance.

Microsoft reports these zero days to every company with a MAPP subscription.

"NSA gets early access to zero-day data from Microsoft"

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-acces...

Yes, this is called MAPP. Every large security company gets them, as well.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/dn467918

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